[Coco] CoCo C, Kreider '97? was Re: Climax C Compiler setup

[Jeff Teunissen]

I will take ANY C source code anyone has available. I am collating it,
organizing it, and putting it into a repository for public use,
educational purposes, maintenance, and posterity (history is
important). At some point I hope to have a complete, buildable native
C compiler for (Nitr)OS9 with runtime library. Using various sources
scattered across the net, that seems like it's possible.

Of particular interest *right now* are any and all versions of Carl
Kreider's CC compiler frontend. I have source that claims to be
version 2.2.1 and a number of modifications people have done, and I
want to put together a chronological timeline of every change that's
been made to it. I have heard that there's an official 2.3.0 version
out there, but I have a gap of stuff that's before 2.2.1, between
2.2.1 and 2.5.0. Post 2.5.0, things get a little weird, I hear,
because people made their own changes to it. Doesn't matter to me, I
want all of it if possible.

But really, any C source code you or anyone else has is welcome. Even
other stuff, if it _contains_ C source. A Basic09 library that's got
several functions written in C? Perfect!

Another of my hopes is to get other people interested in doing the
same for other languages, especially if it's done in public where it
can help as many people as possible. Secrets suck.

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 4:47 AM Stephen Fischer <SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Check Willard Goosey's notes on the "C" Complier in 2011.
>
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Programming/Tandy%20CoCo%20OS-9%20C%20Compiler%20Discussion%20%28Stephen%20Fischer%29.pdf
>
> The collected files are here, minus Walter Zambotti's work a few months
> ago. I have had too many other things to find the time to fix the
> "Discusions" that he has added that pointed incorrectly to earlier
> messages and not the ones he intended to add.
>
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Programming/CoCo%20OS-9%20Climax%20C%20Compiler.zip
>
>
> I may have some other files that did not get into that file.
>
> Willard found just about all the "C" Compiler libraries that existed in
> 2011, but I never found the time to gather them up.
>
> If you want any of my own libraries, please ask soon as my web pages
> will disappear in ~ 8 months, but I have other copies online that will
> not disappear at that time.
>
> SHF
>
> On 7/3/2019 12:04 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> > Sorry to resurrect a necrotic thread, but I saw something that piqued
> > my interest.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 8:06 AM Bill Pierce via Coco
> > <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Gene, those are from Carl Kreider's clib97
> >
> > Is there a version of the Kreider C library that's newer than the 1991
> > release found on RTSI, or was that just a typo?
> >
> > See, I'm working on getting a complete collection of C source code in
> > a central, maintainable, and public location, and if there's a better
> > version of libc, I want to include it. There's some nifty stuff in
> > there already, including the early version of Forth09 posted to
> > CompuServe and the XLisp 1.2 posted to Delphi forever ago that I
> > thought had disappeared.
> >
> > I am currently searching across the net looking for every version of
> > 'cc' so that I can commit them in the order in which they were written
> > (for history purposes). I think I have every version of c_prep now
> > (18, 19, 19a, 19b, and 19c), so that will be included shortly.
> >
> > I also have a number of packages that have not yet been committed for
> > organizational reasons. :)
> >
> > My repository is viewable at <https://github.com/Deek/CoCoC> if you
> > want to take a look, and you can download it with "git clone
> > https://github.com/Deek/CoCoC.git".
> >
>
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